Writing.ie is the only place that you can find the weekly Irish bestseller list online, and as summer is upon us, books are being enthusiastically bought for the plane, beach and garden. This week there are no less than THREE Elle Kennedy titles in the top 20. A Sunday Times, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager. She currently writes for various publishers and is the author of more than 50 titles of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, including the global sensation Off-Campus series.
In the charts this week too, is Women’s Prize winner Virginia Evans with The Correspondent, an epistolary novel that follows the letters and emails of a retired lawyer sent between 2012 and 2022, and which has topped charts around the world.
Here’s the blurb:
Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . . .
To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past.
Her doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club.
All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns.
But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself.
The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send.
Here are the top 20 bestselling books in all categories, taken from Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 27th of June 2026
Book Sales Table RankTitleAuthorImprintSales1Land: From the No. 1 Bestselling Author of Hamnet,O’Farrell, MaggieTinder Press1,8182The Secrets We Hide: The North Falls SeriesSlaughter, KarinHarperCollins1,1753The CorrespondentEvans, VirginiaPenguin Books Ltd1,1024YesteryearBurke, Caro ClaireFourth Estate1,0905My Greatest RaceMageean, CiaraGill Books9746The Things We Never SayStrout, ElizabethViking6897Such a Nice GirlMara, AndreaBantam Books (Transworld)6098The Deal: Now an Original Series on Amazon Prime: Off-CampusKennedy, EllePiatkus Books6049London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search…Keefe, Patrick RaddenPicador58710The Divorce: The Brand New & Instant Sunday Times Bestselling ThrillerMcFadden, FreidaPoisoned Pen Press57411The Shortest History of Ireland (Shortest Histories)Hawes, JamesOld Street Publishing57312All of Them LiedPerdue, GillSandycove55913A Sheepdog Named Oscar: Love and Companionship in Rural IrelandWaldron, DaraSimon & Schuster Ltd52514The Mistake: Now an Original Series on Amazon Prime: Off-Campus and Briar…Kennedy, EllePiatkus Books52515Binding 13: Epic, Emotional and Addictive RomanceWalsh, ChloePiatkus Books51716Ironwood: The Brand New Blockbuster ThrillerConnelly, MichaelOrion51517If These Walls Could Talk: The New Rural Noir ThrillerMcDonagh, MichelleHachette Books Ireland49918The Score: Now an Original Series on Amazon PrimeKennedy, EllePiatkus Books47119The Names: “The Best Debut Novel in Years”Knapp, FlorencePhoenix (an Imprint of The Orion…)46820Our Deadly Summer: The Bitingly Funny Holiday Read for 2026McLysaght, Emer & Breen, SarahBloomsbury Publishing PLC447
Here are the top 10 bestselling books in each category
Mass Market Fiction#TitleAuthorImprintSales1The CorrespondentEvans, VirginiaPenguin Books Ltd1,1022Deal, The: Now an Original Series on Amazon Prime: Off-CampusKennedy, EllePiatkus Books6043Divorce, The: The BRAND NEW & Instant Sunday Times Bestselling ThrillerMcFadden, FreidaPoisoned Pen Press5744Mistake, The: Now an Original Series on Amazon Prime: Off Campus and BriarKennedy, EllePiatkus Books5255Binding 13: Epic, emotional and addictive romance from the TikTok phenomenonWalsh, ChloePiatkus Books5176Score, The: Now an Original Series on Amazon Prime: Off Campus and BriarKennedy, EllePiatkus Books4717Names, The: ‘The best debut novel in years’ Sunday TimesKnapp, FlorencePhoenix (an Imprint of The Orion)4688Project Hail MaryWeir, AndyPenguin (Cornerstone)4259Keeping 13: Epic, emotional and addictive romance from the TikTok phenomenonWalsh, ChloePiatkus Books41310Housemaid, The: An absolutely addictive psychological thrillerMcFadden, FreidaLittle, Brown392Original Fiction#TitleAuthorImprintSales1Land: From the No. 1 bestselling author of HamnetO’Farrell, MaggieTinder Press1,8182The Secrets We Hide: The North Falls SeriesSlaughter, KarinHarperCollins1,1753YesteryearBurke, Caro ClaireFourth Estate1,0904The Things We Never SayStrout, ElizabethViking6895Such a Nice GirlMara, AndreaBantam Books6096All of Them LiedPerdue, GillSandycove5597IronwoodConnelly, MichaelOrion5158If These Walls Could TalkMcDonagh, MichelleHachette Books Ireland4999Our Deadly SummerMcLysaght, Emer & Breen, SarahBloomsbury Publishing PLC44710The Nun of RavensbrückFleming, CathiHachette Books Ireland418Paperback Non Fiction#TitleAuthorImprintSales1London FallingKeefe, Patrick RaddenPicador5872A Sheepdog Named OscarWaldron, DaraSimon & Schuster Ltd5253Said the DeadGhríofa, Doireann NíFaber & Faber4024PoorO’Sullivan, KatrionaPenguin Books Ltd3865RoryShipnuck, AlanSimon & Schuster Ltd2766HungryO’Sullivan, KatrionaHachette Books Ireland2747A Rebel and a TraitorCarroll, RoryMUDLARK2618Say NothingRadden Keefe, PatrickWilliam Collins2589This is Also a Love StoryHayden, SallyFourth Estate25510RTE: Saints, Scholars and ScandalsRoss, ShaneAtlantic Books213Hardback Non Fiction#TitleAuthorImprintSales1My Greatest RaceMageean, CiaraGill Books9742The Shortest History of IrelandHawes, JamesOld Street Publishing5733The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 CensusIrish Academic Press Ltd2064Always RememberMackesy, CharlieEbury Press1765Regime ChangeHaberman, Maggie & Swan, JonathanSimon & Schuster Ltd1706Reflections of a Golden BallCasey, DonalSeahorse Investment1627So Good ExpressEnglish, EmilySeven Dials1568The Curry BibleKatona, NishaMichael Joseph1509Listen to the Land SpeakMagan, ManchánGill Books15010The Let Them TheoryRobbins, Mel & Robbins, SawyerHay House UK Ltd130Children’s#TitleAuthorImprintSales1InvestiGators: Weather or NotGreen, John PatrickMacmillan Children’s Books3982Sticker Dolly Dressing K-POPSims, LesleyUsborne Publishing Ltd.3323The Seriously Epic Holiday of Lottie BrooksKirby, KatiePuffin3204Nina Peanut: Major Drama Alert (Book 4)Bowie, SarahScholastic2795Pablo and Splash: Viking VoyageDempsey, SheenaBloomsbury Children’s Books2676Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper (Book 20)Kinney, JeffPuffin1797World Cup Greatest Moments (Ultimate Football Heroes)Oldfield, Matt & TomDino Books1778The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie BrooksKirby, KatiePuffin1649The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie BrooksKirby, KatiePuffin16310Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 1)Kinney, JeffPuffin158
